garmp1
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Not to burst you bubble, but the best way is to create a secure document. But that is not fool proof either. There are ways of knocking out the security coding and making it editable, and it not that hard. But depending what you have to alter and to what length a hacker want to go. Never say never.
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d3500ram
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Actually, the only "fool proof" method I see is this:
We are going to print a hard copy for our reference desk. We could just rescan the hard prints to a PDF format and upload those to the FTP
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d3500ram wrote:Actually, the only "fool proof" method I see is this:
We are going to print a hard copy for our reference desk. We could just rescan the hard prints to a PDF format and upload those to the FTP
Nope. PDFs can be edited in Photoshop or Illustrator.
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You say that you are using an older version of Adobe Acrobat Standard - which is not Reader. We have used an older Adobe Acrobat and I am pretty sure you can set security in the settings for your pdf document so that it cannot be printed or edited. Look in the settings menu. This can be changed from pdf document to pdf document.
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J-mans Dad
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Do your edits, redlines, etc. then do a "save as" .jpg.
This creates an image file. the you can recode it as a .pdf file.
Gonna take a boatload of effort to edit the image, especially if you have text.
If you really want to play, you can watermark the redlines before you create the image file. Now they'll have to recreate the watermark in the background in addition to the edits.
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TechWriter
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1775 wrote:We have used an older Adobe Acrobat and I am pretty sure you can set security in the settings for your pdf document so that it cannot be printed or edited. Look in the settings menu.
One more time . . . Elmsoft PDF Password Recovery can crack it.
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garmp1
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J-mans Dad has the best solution. The document then becomes a picture and then pains taking effort is needed to alter it. FYI, if you use a Mac and the pdf has a security code that will not permit altering, simple drop the file into the ColorSync Utility in your Utilities folder under Apps, resave as whatever.pdf and voila! security code is gone.
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